NRS 22.020 Reentry
on real property after ejectment by judgment or process.

NRS 22.030 Summary
punishment of contempt committed in immediate view and presence of court;
affidavit or statement to be filed when contempt committed outside immediate
view and presence of court; disqualification of judge.

1. Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent
behavior toward the judge while the judge is holding court, or engaged in
judicial duties at chambers, or toward masters or arbitrators while sitting on
a reference or arbitration, or other judicial proceeding.

2. A breach of the peace, boisterous
conduct or violent disturbance in the presence of the court, or in its
immediate vicinity, tending to interrupt the due course of the trial or other
judicial proceeding.

3. Disobedience or resistance to any
lawful writ, order, rule or process issued by the court or judge at chambers.

4. Disobedience of a subpoena duly served,
or refusing to be sworn or answer as a witness.

5. Rescuing any person or property in the
custody of an officer by virtue of an order or process of such court or judge
at chambers.

6. Disobedience of the order or direction
of the court made pending the trial of an action, in speaking to or in the
presence of a juror concerning an action in which the juror has been impaneled
to determine, or in any manner approaching or interfering with such juror with
the intent to influence the verdict.

7. Abusing the process or proceedings of
the court or falsely pretending to act under the authority of an order or
process of the court.

[1911 CPA § 452; RL § 5394; NCL § 8941]—(NRS A 1983,
843)

NRS 22.020Reentry on real property after ejectment by judgment or process.Every person dispossessed of or ejected from
any real property by the judgment or process of any court of competent
jurisdiction, and who, not having a right so to do, reenters into or upon or
takes possession of any such real property, or induces or procures any person
not having a right so to do, or aids or abets the person therein, is guilty of
a contempt of the court by which such judgment was rendered or from which such
process issued, and shall be tried and punished therefor in the same manner and
form as provided by law in cases of contempt not committed in the presence of
the court or justice of the peace. Upon conviction for such contempt, the court
or justice of the peace shall immediately issue an alias process directing the
proper officer to restore possession to the party entitled to the property
under the original judgment, decree or process.

[1911 CPA § 453; RL § 5395; NCL § 8942]—(NRS A 1983,
844)

NRS 22.030Summary punishment of contempt committed in immediate view and
presence of court; affidavit or statement to be filed when contempt committed
outside immediate view and presence of court; disqualification of judge.

1. If a contempt is committed in the
immediate view and presence of the court or judge at chambers, the contempt may
be punished summarily. If the court or judge summarily punishes a person for a
contempt pursuant to this subsection, the court or judge shall enter an order
that:

(a) Recites the facts constituting the contempt
in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge;

(b) Finds the person guilty of the contempt; and

(c) Prescribes the punishment for the contempt.

2. If a contempt is not committed in the
immediate view and presence of the court or judge at chambers, an affidavit
must be presented to the court or judge of the facts constituting the contempt,
or a statement of the facts by the masters or arbitrators.

3. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, if a contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence
of the court, the judge of the court in whose contempt the person is alleged to
be shall not preside at the trial of the contempt over the objection of the
person. The provisions of this subsection do not apply in:

(a) Any case where a final judgment or decree of
the court is drawn in question and such judgment or decree was entered in such
court by a predecessor judge thereof 10 years or more preceding the bringing of
contempt proceedings for the violation of the judgment or decree.

(b) Any proceeding described in subsection 1 of NRS 3.223, whether or not a family court
has been established in the judicial district.

NRS 22.040Issuance of warrants of attachment and commitment.When the contempt is not committed in the
immediate view and presence of the court or judge, a warrant of attachment may
be issued to bring the person charged to answer, or, without a previous arrest,
a warrant of commitment may, upon notice, or upon an order to show cause, be
granted; and no warrant of commitment shall be issued without such previous
attachment to answer, or such notice or order to show cause.

[1911 CPA § 455; RL § 5397; NCL § 8944]

NRS 22.050Amount of bail may be fixed by endorsement on warrant of
attachment.Whenever a warrant of
attachment is issued pursuant to this chapter, the court or judge shall direct,
by an endorsement on such warrant, that the person charged may be let to bail
for his or her appearance, in an amount to be specified in such endorsement.

[1911 CPA § 456; RL § 5398; NCL § 8945]

NRS 22.060Duties of sheriff.Upon
executing the warrant of attachment, the sheriff shall keep the person in
custody, bring the person before the court or judge, and detain the person
until an order be made in the premises, unless the person arrested entitle
himself or herself to be discharged, as provided in NRS
22.070.

[1911 CPA § 457; RL § 5399; NCL § 8946]

NRS 22.070Discharge from arrest on furnishing bail; form and conditions of
bond.When a direction to let the
person arrested to bail is contained in the warrant of attachment, or endorsed
thereon, the person arrested shall be discharged from the arrest upon executing
and delivering to the officer, at any time before the return day of the
warrant, a written undertaking, with two sufficient sureties, to the effect
that the person arrested will appear on the return of the warrant and abide the
order of the court or judge thereupon, or they will pay as may be directed the
sum specified in the warrant.

[1911 CPA § 458; RL § 5400; NCL § 8947]

NRS 22.080Return of warrant and undertaking by officer.The officer shall return the warrant of arrest
and the undertaking, if any, received by the officer from the person arrested,
by the return day specified therein.

[1911 CPA § 459; RL § 5401; NCL § 8948]

NRS 22.090Trial; court to hear answer and witnesses; adjournment.When the person arrested has been brought up
or appeared, the court or judge shall proceed to investigate the charge, and
shall hear any answer which the person arrested shall make to the same, and may
examine witnesses for or against the person arrested, for which an adjournment
may be had from time to time if necessary.

[1911 CPA § 460; RL § 5402; NCL § 8949]

NRS 22.100Penalty for contempt.

1. Upon the answer and evidence taken, the
court or judge or jury, as the case may be, shall determine whether the person
proceeded against is guilty of the contempt charged.

2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 22.110, if a person is found guilty of contempt, a
fine may be imposed on the person not exceeding $500 or the person may be
imprisoned not exceeding 25 days, or both.

3. In addition to the penalties provided
in subsection 2, if a person is found guilty of contempt pursuant to subsection
3 of NRS 22.010, the court may require the person
to pay to the party seeking to enforce the writ, order, rule or process the
reasonable expenses, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, incurred
by the party as a result of the contempt.

NRS 22.110Imprisonment until performance if contempt is omission to
perform an act; penalty for failure or refusal to testify before grand jury.

1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 2, when the contempt consists in the omission to perform an act
which is yet in the power of the person to perform, the person may be
imprisoned until the person performs it. The required act must be specified in
the warrant of commitment.

2. A person so imprisoned as a result of
his or her failure or refusal to testify before a grand jury may be imprisoned
in the county jail for a period not to exceed 6 months or until that grand jury
is discharged, whichever is less.

NRS 22.120Indictment for contemptuous conduct.Persons
proceeded against according to the provisions of this chapter shall also be
liable to indictment for the same misconduct, if it be an indictable offense,
but the court before which a conviction is had on an indictment, in passing
sentence, shall take into consideration the punishment before inflicted.

[1911 CPA § 463; RL § 5405; NCL § 8952]

NRS 22.130Proceedings when defendant does not appear; measure of damages
in action on undertaking.When the
warrant of arrest has been returned served, if the person arrested does not
appear on the return day, the court or judge may issue another warrant of
arrest, or may order the undertaking to be prosecuted, or both. If the
undertaking be prosecuted, the measure of damages in the action shall be the
extent of the loss or injury sustained by the aggrieved party by reason of the
misconduct for which the warrant was issued, and the costs of the proceeding.

[1911 CPA § 464; RL § 5406; NCL § 8953]

NRS 22.140Excuses for not bringing arrested person before court; persons
not to be unnecessarily restrained.Whenever,
by the provisions of this chapter, an officer is required to keep a person
arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to bring the person before
a court or judge, the inability, from illness or otherwise, of the person to
attend shall be a sufficient excuse for not bringing the person up; and the
officer shall not confine a person arrested upon the warrant in a prison, or
otherwise restrain him or her of personal liberty, except so far as may be
necessary to secure his or her personal attendance.